About Wrike
Wrike is the most powerful work management platform, built for teams and organizations looking to collaborate, create, and exceed every day. Our vision is a world where everyone is free to focus on their most purposeful work, together. We are a team of innovators and creators who solve complex work problems.
About the Role
We are looking for a Team Leader for one of our SysOps teams. This role supports our GCP and on-premises infrastructure (including networking), internal services for the SysOps department, and parts of the Wrike product, including staging and production installations. You will have the opportunity to influence decisions, mentor, and upskill your team, enabling partners with reliable and effective infrastructure and Cloud-based solutions. You will lead a team of system and network engineers, providing technical guidance and mentorship, and helping to optimize and automate everyday tasks.
Your Impact
- Managing a middle-size team of system and network engineers.
- Assuming technical lead and ownership of Wrike product and development infrastructures in both on-premises and cloud environments.
- Liaising with other SysOps team leaders on strategy, projects, and day-to-day management of the SysOps Department.
- Providing technical guidance and mentorship to team members.
- Helping teams to optimize and automate "every-day" tasks.
- Guiding the team to successfully meet their objectives.
Your Qualifications
- Experience with leading a team.
- Strong Linux fundamentals: familiar with Linux CLI, hands-on experience with web applications.
- Network fundamentals: TCP/IP, routing.
- Git version control system or other VCS.
- High personal responsibility, willingness to grow and learn, and a passion for work.
Standout Qualities
- Experience with System Configuration Management tools (Ansible/Puppet/Salt, etc.).
- Experience with CI/CD systems and tools: GitlabCI/Jenkins.
- Cloud Technology experience with either Amazon Web Services or Google Cloud Platform (managing with Terraform, Kubernetes).
Team Dynamics and Work Style
The SysOps department consists of 4 teams, with over 20 people in total. The team you will lead has 5 members distributed across multiple European countries. The team focuses on:
- Managing DB infrastructure (PostgreSQL).
- Working with GCP, Cloudflare, and other third-party services within an IaC paradigm.
- Managing Kafka and data pipeline infrastructure.
- Collaborating with the Engineering department and running several products and internal applications.
- Managing the virtualization platform (Proxmox).
We run Java, NodeJS, and PHP applications in Kubernetes and standalone VMs. Our technology stack includes:
- Load Balancing: Nginx, HAproxy, and Istio.
- Messaging: Kafka and RabbitMQ.
- Databases: PostgreSQL and MySQL.
- Logging: Graylog, Logstash, and Fluentd.
- Monitoring: Prometheus (VictoriaMetrics) and Zabbix.
- Infrastructure as Code: Puppet, Ansible, and Terraform.
- CI/CD: Jenkins and Gitlab-CI.
- Automation: Python.
- Cloud Providers: GCP, AWS, and Cloudflare.
- Networking: Juniper network equipment in on-premise datacenters.
Our Culture
We are Smart, Dedicated, and Approachable. Our values include being Customer-Focused, Collaborative, Creative, and Committed. We believe in ownership at all levels and foster an environment of creative collaboration and shared achievement. We strive for continuous innovation and empower our team members for personal growth and collective success.
Learn more about our culture on our LinkedIn Life Page, Company culture page, Instagram, Wrike Engineering Team, Medium, Meetup.com, and Youtube.
